Advances in Space Research
Remote Sensing of the Earth's Surface
Published on 30. April 1992
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Paperback/Softback
468 pages
978-0-08-041853-7 (ISBN)
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The sixty-six papers contained in this volume have been divided into four main chapters. Resource Mapping and Geophysical Surveys using Space Technology features four main areas. Firstly, the potentiality of MAGSAT data reduction to allocate crustal anomaly; secondly, the application of geophysical and geochemical data for mineral exploration; thirdly, the application of gamma-ray survey to locate the source of radioactive materials and lastly the importance of ground truths obtained by conventional geophysical surveys in the interpretation of satellite data. The chapter on Ice and Cloud Motions deduced from Satellite Imagery is in two sections, Cloud Winds - Methods and Accuracies and Ice Motion - Methods and Accuracies. Chapter 3 entitled Weather Analysis and Forecasting-Nowcasting to Extended Range Predictions focusses on the current status and future use of satellite observations in weather analysis and forecasting. Global weather predictions are expected to improve due to improved satellite observations and from the inclusion of small-scale physics supported by finer space and time resolution of the numerical models.
The sixty-six papers contained in this volume have been divided into four main chapters. Resource Mapping and Geophysical Surveys using Space Technology features four main areas. Firstly, the potentiality of MAGSAT data reduction to allocate crustal anomaly; secondly, the application of geophysical and geochemical data for mineral exploration; thirdly, the application of gamma-ray survey to locate the source of radioactive materials and lastly the importance of ground truths obtained by conventional geophysical surveys in the interpretation of satellite data. The chapter on Ice and Cloud Motions deduced from Satellite Imagery is in two sections, Cloud Winds - Methods and Accuracies and Ice Motion - Methods and Accuracies. Chapter 3 entitled Weather Analysis and Forecasting-Nowcasting to Extended Range Predictions focusses on the current status and future use of satellite observations in weather analysis and forecasting. Global weather predictions are expected to improve due to improved satellite observations and from the inclusion of small-scale physics supported by finer space and time resolution of the numerical models.
The sixty-six papers contained in this volume have been divided into four main chapters. Resource Mapping and Geophysical Surveys using Space Technology features four main areas. Firstly, the potentiality of MAGSAT data reduction to allocate crustal anomaly; secondly, the application of geophysical and geochemical data for mineral exploration; thirdly, the application of gamma-ray survey to locate the source of radioactive materials and lastly the importance of ground truths obtained by conventional geophysical surveys in the interpretation of satellite data. The chapter on Ice and Cloud Motions deduced from Satellite Imagery is in two sections, Cloud Winds - Methods and Accuracies and Ice Motion - Methods and Accuracies. Chapter 3 entitled Weather Analysis and Forecasting-Nowcasting to Extended Range Predictions focusses on the current status and future use of satellite observations in weather analysis and forecasting. Global weather predictions are expected to improve due to improved satellite observations and from the inclusion of small-scale physics supported by finer space and time resolution of the numerical models.
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English
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
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Elsevier Science & Technology
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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978-0-08-041853-7 (9780080418537)
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Chapter headings and selected papers: Resource Mapping and Geophysical Surveys Using Space Technology. The search for crustal resources: MAGSAT and beyond, P T Taylor et al . Combined interpretation of remote sensing imagery and geological and geophysical data: exploration for gold in southern Brittany, France, D Bonnefoy et al . Discrimination of rock types using Landsat thematic mapper data, N Patel & K K Rampa;. New developments in ground probing radar for earth resource mapping and planetology, P J Cattermole et al . Airborne gamma-ray spectrometry in uranium exploration, S S Raghuwanshi. Ice and Cloud Motions Deduced from Satellite Imagery. Operational cloud motion winds from METEOSAT and the use of cirrus clouds as tracers, J Schmetz & K Holmlun;. Measurement and validation of atmospheric motions detected on water vapor Meteosat imagery, H Laurent & M Desbois; Verification of cloud motion winds at global scale, H Woick. Ice motion from airborne SAR and satellite imagery, K Kloster et al . Tracker II, an improved algorithm for automatic extraction of displacement fields from sequential satellite imagery, J R Marko & J F R Gow;r. Weather Analysis and Forecasting-Nowcasting to Extended Range Predictions. Future space-based sounding observations for weather analysis and forecasting, W L Smith. Intermediate range analysis and prediction systems in the 1990s: a southern hemisphere perspective, M J Manton & L M Lesli;. Use of satellite data in global forecasting, J Pailleux. Analytical Techniques and Results for Multiple Satellite Sensors and Sensors with High Resolution. Land use survey using remote sensing and geographical information systems, Y Suga. Author Index.